​It used to be thought that babies grew from a very small version of the same thing—termed a homunculus. From a Bible perspective, this neatly explained how it was that "in Adam all had sinned." The whole of humanity resided within his loins (homunculi within homunculi within homunculi . . .) Therefore, when he sinned so did all of his contained homunculi, giving us all an "original sin" requiring a savior.

Our modern understanding of genetics retired the cute little baby in a sperm homunculus idea. However, although DNA in a fertilized ovum may not be a preformed homunculus human, its program is a blueprint for a human.

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​To any thinking person, it is a consternating wonder that something as unimaginably complex and functional as a human could form from an egg the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Not only that, there is the issue of the source of the complex information embedded in our DNA.

DNA is comprised of smaller molecules that in turn come from atoms which are in turn comprised of quanta. But none of these components contain the information, the blueprint, to form a human.

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​There is an obvious difference between the information in sperm and eggs and that which is within their component atoms. Search as they may, atomic physicists never find so much as even a hint of anything akin to the information characterizing life residing there. Any given atom only contains information about how to be that atom.

On their own, atoms do not know how to combine to form a blueprint for a person. Nowhere can there be rescued an answer from the hundreds of years of research and millions of pages of scientific literature. No plausible tiny quantum mechanical, atomic, molecular, or biochemical evolutionary baby steps have ever been devised or even attempted.

If it could be done, it would have by now and laboratories around the world would be churning out every imaginable sort of living thing. But not even the simplest of living things has ever been created in spite of the brain power expended. Yet evolutionists contend it happened in the past with no brain power whatsoever.

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​Add every materialistic explanation for the origin of life up, draw a line, and the same impossible conclusion emerges: massive amounts of information must magically come from no information.

Information is what implants information in books, blueprints, and computer programs. We normally think of information as it relates to language, but even natural objects like trees and people contain information—even rocks and atoms do. There is a menu of information within things defining what they are and what they can do.

Moreover, it's an immutable law that things naturally lose information, they do not gain it. Start at one end of a group of people. Whisper to a person: "Earth science describes nature's machinations." Then ask that it be whispered one to another to the end of the group. When it gets to the end it will be something like: "Washing machines clean Earth."

At the end of any series of random events acting upon information, the loss of information always exceeds any random gains.

On July 22, 1962, the Mariner 1 space probe was exploded shortly after liftoff. The omission of a single hyphen in the guidance software information led to a series of false course correction signals. The rocket was then deliberately detonated to prevent it from crashing down in a populated area. The rocket was worth between $80 and $150 million, a loss due to a single typo error. The point is that even a small inadvertent error can fatally destroy functional information. Imagine what random changes can do.

Neither the formation of or inevitable degradation of information over time jibes with evolution. It's not, as evolution demands, within the nature of things to become more complex by adding information. Science is about observation, facts, and obedience to natural laws. But there are no observations or facts demonstrating spontaneous information increase in the absence of outside intelligent agency. Nor would such a thing be consistent with natural law.

Matter can naturally manifest in different forms that, at first glance, appear to be something other and more complex than what they were to begin with. A snowflake is an intricate pattern that does not look at all like a water molecule. But the snowflake is nothing more than a manifestation of the preexisting information in the molecule. Even though there are trillions of different snowflake configurations, they are all an expression of a preexistent capacity held within water molecules. But aside from the ability to form water, clouds, and snowflakes, as well as evaporate, sublimate, combine with or disassociate other chemicals, and expand upon freezing, that's about all the information that water molecules contain. The encyclopedia within water molecules never so much as adds even a meaningful letter or word. It is what it is and that's it.

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Organisms are best thought of as the effect of information. The DNA molecule is made of four nucleotides, represented by the letters A,C,G,T (adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine). This is a quaternary code, as opposed to the binary code of computers. These molecular letters are in turn organized into genetic codons, genes, operons, regulons, and chromosomes which are like words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and books.

The prodigious DNA information in even one human cell is staggering. The 100 trillion cells in the entire body would equal 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015) copies of this book. That's enough books, stacked side-by-side, as in a library, to reach to the sun well over fifty times.

The information carrying capacity of DNA outstrips inorganic data-storage devices such as flash memory, hard disks or even storage based on quantum-computing methods. It's estimated that about a teaspoon of DNA in 2011 could have held all the information up to that time, from the ancient Greeks through every selfie, text, movie, and album. With present silicon chip technology, by 2040 the amount of world data accumulated for instant access would require a facility costing billions and decades to build. This is not to mention consuming hundreds of megawatts of power and exhausting the world's supply of computer-grade silicon. On the other hand, only about two pounds of DNA would be required and would consume about 0.04 watts per gigabyte.

In addition to recognizing the extraordinary information-carrying capacity of DNA, the critical point to understand is that the information in DNA is beyond the characteristics and information of the atoms composing its structure. Atoms simply do not have the know-how on their own to form DNA or any other information-carrying biochemical that could result in functional complexity.

Information is an entity in and of itself and apart from the letters and vocabulary it uses. It is neither energy dependent nor matter dependent. It is other. Something had to encode ("tell") quanta, neutrons, protons, cells, organs, physiological systems, bodies, planets, stars, and galaxies to be what they are and behave as they do. Nothing discovered within nature can account for this, other than preexisting information.

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Information requires an information giver, an intelligence, a mind. We know this to be true because when things that contain functional information, such as blueprints, music, language, instructions, and computer HTML are constructed, they require mind. We also know that once in place, such information remains as it is or degrades with time. There is no exception to the rule and that is as good as science can get. It's simple, obvious, common sense, and requires no data to be excluded.

Everything is what it is because of information. Everything stays what it is because of information. Randomness and time (the gods of materialism and evolution) are destroyers of information, not its Creators.

Information always requires an information giver—an intelligent mind. That's an inviolable law that evolution violates. Notice that the conclusions derived from the Law of Information don't require any religious predisposition nor do they lead to one. We're simply letting known truths guide us.

Any evolutionist who disagrees is free to prove by evidence or experiment that functional information on the scale found even in the simplest living organism can arise spontaneously. So far, in spite of millions of pages of scientific literature and hundreds of years, silence. Instead, there's just hubris and dogged belief. That's faith-based religion, not science.

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Introduction1. Rules for Finding Truth2. Truth Is Real and Accessible3. Origin Choices4. The Laws of Thermodynamics5. The Law of Information6. The Law of Impossibility7. The Law of Biogenesis8. The Laws of Chemistry9. The Law of Time10. Fossil Problems11. Have Humans Evolved?12. Are We Selected Mutants?13. Favorite Evolutionist Proofs14. Why Evolution Is Believed15. Free Will Proves Creation16. Design17. Biological Machines18. Nuts, Bolts, Gears, and Rotors Prove Intelligent Design19. Humans Defy Evolution20. The Anthropic Universe21. Evolution’s Impact22. Putting Religion on the Table23. How Religion Begins and Develops24. Religions Cross Pollinate25. Gods Writing Books26. Questionable Foundations of Christianity27. How Best to Measure Holy Books28. The Ultimate Holy Book Test29. Religion Unleashed30. End(s) of the World31. Defending Holy Books32. Faith33. The Source of Goodness34. Matter is an Illusion35. Weird Things Disprove Materialism36. Even Weirder Things37. Creature Testimony38. Personal Weirdness39. Proving Weird Things40. Skeptics and Debunkers41. Free Will Proves We Are Other42. Mind Outside Matter43. Death is a Return44. Life After Death45. Why There is Suffering46. The Creator47. Thinking’s Destination$1 Million Reward

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